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Is a person with sars contagious before symptoms appear?
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Yes: Often, early in the incubation period the patient will shed virus prior to becoming ill; usually for this virus that period can be 3-10 days.
Answered 3/3/2012
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Not very: Patients with sars are most contagious only after lower respiratory disease developed.
Answered 12/8/2012
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